In 60 years in show business, Mel Brooks has earned more major awards than any other living entertainer. A comedy giant of our time, his first success came in the early ’60s with the 2000 Year Old Man albums, recorded with Carl Reiner and unleashing Brooks’ wacky mind on the world — his brazen film The Producers won the 1968 Oscar for best screenplay and cult classics like Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, Spaceballs and Robin Hood: Men in Tights followed. Ironically, this larger-than-life man is very private and has been reclusive since his wife of 41 years, Anne Bancroft, died in 2005. He has never authorized a biography and has requested that his friends not talk about him, making his full participation with AMERICAN MASTERS a genuine first.

if you like American Masters: Mel Brooks – Make a Noise, you might also like...